The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-12-08
NO. IL.

Assembly plan which will make the Unit
versity of South Carolina cover, so far as
an institution of learning can, all the wants
and all the diversified interests of this State.
There has been no tardiness, no indiffer-
ence. The progress has been Ietarded SIM
ply by the poverty and inability of the
State. Aswe Lave improved and increased
i'll wealth and strength our institutions of
learning have progressed
Our report submits now to the General
Assembly wide university scheme, which
will have in one college all and more than
| all which was ever contained in the South
Carolina College. 1t will be a COLLEGE of
agriculture and mechanical art which will
equal any college of agriculture or mechan-
ical arts now in operation in the Southern
States, aud we think IN any State in the
Union. Applause ! That college Is fol-
lowed by college pharmacy which covers
| n class OF wants, cOmprehends the ncces-
sity which has forced our young men up to
this time to leave South Carolina and 90
elsewhere to acquire that profession. 1t
comprehends college for the instruction
OF teachers normal school which will
train the young men of South Carolina in
! The art and science of teaching, it has q law
! school where young men who are devoted
| to that profession can acquire their diplo-
mn. The graduates Of the college of agri
culture and mechanic arts will be as well
prepared rs they arc in any institution of
learning Of that name anywhere in the
| United States to enter upon the pursuits of
! agriculture and mechanic arts II prom.
lScs to open to our young men a field for
! employment and promotion in the practical
| science Of manufacturing, mining aud civil
engineering, which are part and parcel of
! the manufacturing business and enterprises
which promote the wealth of every State
in the United States.
able to complete, and those who occupied
| these positions OF elevation and strength are
brought from abroad. The graduates in
! agriculture are to be trained in the highest
schools of science in that department. The
experimental farm is now in operation
Our mechanical workshop, with the little
means ut nand, is in operation. | hope you
gentlemen will go there and see the work
/ Of the hands of the youths of South Caro-.
lima. The workshop has been built by their
hands, the interior work is all done by
| them. The tools and machinery in that
! building arc Of their construction.
You can go in the laboratory of the
chemical school and witness there what
they are learning. This place doubles
trcbIcs, magnics everything which was
exhibited there in the beginning of that
school. Ii makes it separate and distinct;
! ii makes the graduates Of the AGRICULTURAL
!
any graduates Of any other college, and I
trust that the labor Of the board of trustees
! Will not be i'll vain, that this will meet not
only with your approval, but the hearty
! approval OF our representatives in the Gen
crul Assembly
"Thankmg you for the honor conferred,
l take the liberty Of handing this report to
! your chairman,
Judge lIaskcll's remarks were received
as information.
| REsOlU rIONs hDop TED.
Captain Tillman made the report of
the Committee on Resolutions, prefaoing
the same by some remarks to the effect
that of the sundry resolutions referred to
them, they had rejected one and changed
or embodied the others in those whic,.
they had to report. The report WAS as
follows:
"Iho Committee on Resolutions beg
leave to submit tho following report:
"Rcso!ved, That the Convention does
earnestly urge the Legislature to estab-
lish scpCrate Agricultural College, and
to rcorganize the Bureau.
''Resolved, That it is not the purpose
of the farmers of the State to make their
organization Il political body, hostile to
other classes, nor is it their intention to
attack the integrity of our State officers,
nor their policy to arraign or dictate to
the Legislature.
"Resolvcd, That we believe in the
thorough organization Of the farmors of
the State, with the object and firm pur-
poso Of developing the agricultural
sources.
"Resolved, That wo regret tho action
Of somo OF the counties which declined
, to send delegates to this Convention, and
respectfully invite them hereafter to
unite with the Farmers movement.
) "Rcsolvcd, That we believe in the ne
t ccsslty and propricty Of reorganizing the
t Agricultural Department, to mako il
moro efficient and useful, and respect
fully ask tho Legislature to give careful
consideration to tho several bills already
introduced in their body looking to thai
= ond."
} A motion that the report bo adopted
/ was carricd-no one voting in the mega.
tive.
| Captain TilIman then offered resolu.
c ton which is exactly the same rs the fifth
article of the platform adopted ut last
+ years Convention. 1t was adopted, and
- reads as follows:
owe urge the Legislature not to squan-
der the States property by allowing the
wholesale expectation of phosphates at
, merely nominal prices, and that with a
Wow Of lessen ng the burdens Of taxation
they take into consideration the advisa.
bility of increasing the phosphate roy.
atty"
The Association then adjourned sine
die.